Update: zenni is back in stock. But they don’t support a cyl (astigmatism correction) value outside of -2 to 2.

I really need prescription lenses for the Frame, but am hesitating on which to buy.

Zenni is Steam’s recommendation, and was out of stock immediately, with no communication on future availability.

VR Optician seems like a safe choice quality wise, but it’s 3-4 weeks fabrication, then shipping from Germany and clearing customs. Also the most expensive option, but I want quality lenses and would be willing to pay appropriately. I’m just also impatient.

AMVR is on version 2. AMVR version 1 is the only lens I can find a review of, and it wasn’t favorable. The frames for the lenses for both versions are 3D printed, and apparently don’t mount very securely. I have a fairly large astigmatism in my dominant eye, so the lens potentially rotating a bit from where it is supposed to be is a significant downside.

VR-rock is suspicious. Using some pics from the quest, and not very clear about how they are mounted. For other headsets they have a magnetically mounted lens option, which I would go for, but it looks like that isn’t available for the Frame, at least right now.

Anybody who has already gotten a pair of Rx lenses?

If you are interested in non harm ethics, consider the harm data centers do. Using ChatGPT supports and further enables that harm. It is happening somewhere else that you can’t see, but it is still happening.

Wasabi and radishes and mustard have a different chemical mechanism from peppers for their spice. I had a friend who grew up in India, and has basically no regard for capsaicin, over for dinner one night. We had some radishes out of our garden, and some of them were definitely on the hot side so I warned her. She scoffed and bit off half a good sized radish. She was soon downing iced tea to wash it away and said, oh my god, is that what spicy food is like for you? But capsaicin is oil based and doesn’t wash away so easily.

I was almost decided on getting this, then read reviews from people with a lot of playtime saying that there are some serious bugs and performance issues that have not been addressed, and that moving to 1.0 seems premature.

Hopefully they fix the issues, it does look interesting!

Unfortunately the telemetry is not an EV only problem. That’s all cars now, and until we make it illegal.

Expect the Slate pickup, they claim.

I’m not saying there is no reason to continue questioning whether he is fit for office, but that is a hospital chair, not a bed.

It can be hard to tell. I wouldn’t buy a battle born battery right now though.

They have some bad recommendations and dangerous QC issues apparently.

https://youtu.be/_MOol0_DuU4?is=z5Qp-f4NbufhWEuB

Either this or one very similar was in True Blood, the Fellowship of the Sun church.

Yeah, modern politics and big corporations can’t be adequately explained by stupidity though. At a certain point malice and greed are the only plausible explanations.

In this situation with D Brand, stupidity does seem adequate. It’s a lot of stupidity, but definitely not an unbelievable amount, especially since they’ve been doing similar things without it really biting them in the ass until now.

Although, I guess whether or not it is just a PR stunt there was a certain amount of shadiness happening. Either directed at the public if it was, or intending to make unlicensed profit off of Valve’s IP if it wasn’t.

Anything is possible, but they announced it very early, made what looks to be a good design, made enough examples to send to a bunch of content creators, and took pre-orders. For the this to be intended to be a PR stunt only, everything would have hinged on Valve sending them a C&D after they did all those things. What if Valve had ignored it? The most simple explanation is usually correct, and never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, lol.

If they made the tooling to mass produce the cubes like they claim they did, that advertising was very not free. In fact, paying for a lot of advertising would be quite a bit less money. I think they had been getting away with using Valve IP on skins for years, and thought they’d get away with this too.

I know you kid, but I saw news stories about it crashing during multiple events, and I halfway think they decided not to reinforce the network to prevent it, lol.

DDR4 prices have come up too. In fact, DDR3 and even DDR2 prices have spiked.

I had a Mitsubishi Mighty Max, and about once a month I wish I hadn’t sold it.

No, that is not normal practice. If you do that, you aren’t just eating the loss of what your employer should have paid you, you would be paying taxes on money you didn’t make.

I had a manager at a bar try to feed me that line after a very slow shift and I refused. Anyone pushing that as standard practice either has been direly mislead, or is screwing you over for the company’s profit.

These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!

Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.

Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.

No huge consequences, you’re right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn’t notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.

Even if they didn’t, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.

There is a lot of disinformation for sure. We are also growing a lot of crops in places we shouldn’t be, and almonds in California are a pretty good example.